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Lovely to see you sketching again Tessa, I do like your loose style! Lovely sketches Gillian and Bari. Mine are a couple of sketches from another little trip on the River Nene. It was a bit grey and overcast so I had a go with wax crayons on black cartridge paper across the fields where we moored. The following day a bit brighter so a watercolour sketch of the view from the back of the boat. The balsam is pretty but an invasive introduction which is taking over along this stretch of the river.
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Katy, your views from the boat are both lovely. I walked with my daughter recently along the riverbank near her home and the Himalayan balsam is taking over there also. Quite pretty but apparently kills everything around it! We looked it up as we weren’t sure what it was.
Dixie we get an occasional sparrow hawk here in our garden, but have never seen it take anything. I do like birds of prey and we see a lot of red kites floating around looking for food, great sight.
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Red kites are just coming back here to this bit of Wales they were decimated by game keepers. I know over towards Brecon they are almost like sparrows. We get all excited when we see them.
Just spent an hour in the sun painting to Mozart and waving to neighbours. My neighbours rewilded garden is still going strong it’s changed from pinks,reds and blues to lots of yellow. I feel a “ proper” painting coming on. Like your Cello player Paul.
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Your sketches are nice by the river Katy. Paul your sketch brought back memories of my sister playing the cello in her younger years, really good sketch. Wonderful array of flowers Sylvia. Tessa the puppy is s cute and it's great to see you back. I've been looking at the shapes of old glasses, here is my quick sketch.
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Gillian, I particularly like your charcoal sketches. The cello player is very good Paul, a great pose. Lovely wild flowers garden, how lucky to have that next door Sylvia. Love the snoozing puppy Tessa, great looking character. Good practice with the glass Denise, not the easiest of subjects. Mine is a little red jug in oil pastel, a birthday card for a friend I think.
